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Seems like generating this sort of plagiarised output is something we could train a machine to do. No need to put someone on the payroll to do it.

Does he think he has to justify jis language choices to others?

Maybe he's worried because someone else might have to read the code someday and they might wonder why it's Perl.

What's needed is a way to store code in an "intermediate" form that can easily be translated into whatever scripting language is desired.

His 1st bullet point says it all. Ken Thompson said the same thing about Linux in an interview years ago. He said that is Linux's major problem.

I find preoccupation with some company's metaphor to be a sign of lack of creativity. And the people behind Linux distributions are obsessed with Microsoft and the "desktop".

The "desktop" is only one metaphor.

Does iOS have a "desktop"?

To speed up Vista when it was first released, I used to disable the desktop in Windows by changing the registry key that specifies "explorer.exe". I would just boot to msconfig or task manager.

The system ran much faster that way. Applications can still be minimised. It worked so well, I never went back to the aero nonsense.

Obsession with a "desktop", and trying to look like Microsoft's version of it, is one of Linux's major flaws.